Cavan-Monaghan — week of Mon, 23 Jun — Watch Them Work

What your Cavan-Monaghan TDs did this week

Mon, 23 Jun – 29 Jun 2025 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 53 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages

2025-06-25 · 4 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 64–82

Voted for 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Voted against 1 Brendan Smith

Did not vote 2 David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 47–104

Voted for 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Voted against 2 Brendan Smith · David Maxwell

Did not vote 1 Niamh Smyth

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 67–83

Voted for 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Voted against 2 Brendan Smith · David Maxwell

Did not vote 1 Niamh Smyth

The motion · motion passed 104–48

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · David Maxwell

Voted against 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Did not vote 1 Niamh Smyth

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022

2025-06-25 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to require pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment suppliers and their servants or agents, to declare payments, gifts, donations or other transfers of values provided…

full description

A bill to require pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment suppliers and their servants or agents, to declare payments, gifts, donations or other transfers of values provided to healthcare professionals or health care organisations on an annual basis.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 85–67

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · David Maxwell

Voted against 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Did not vote 1 Niamh Smyth

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery

2025-06-25 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 82–69

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · David Maxwell

Voted against 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Did not vote 1 Niamh Smyth

The motion · motion passed 83–69

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · David Maxwell

Voted against 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Did not vote 1 Niamh Smyth

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-06-24 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 87–66

Voted for 3 Brendan Smith · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Cathy Bennett · Matt Carthy

Brendan Smith — Fianna Fáil 8 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Transport 4 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide additional funding this year to Cavan and Monaghan County Councils for the non-national road network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34132/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he will ensure a substantial financial allocation under the road works programme to Cavan County Council for the further planning and design of a route (details supplied) in view of its strategic importance for the Border region and the need to upgrade this road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34137/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he will give detailed consideration to a recent briefing note of the Northern & Western Regional Assembly: Regional Infrastructure Priorities for the Northern and Western Region, June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34168/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware of the concerns of commuters using Bus Éireann services on the Cavan-Dublin route in relation to the excessive increase in fares effective from 16 June 2025; if he will ensure that these fares are reviewed and reduced by the National Transport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34578/25]
Education 3 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 12 June 2025, if she will outline how the ancillary grant is calculated for each school, the total funding provided for this scheme in 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34222/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of concerns of school principals, boards of management, and parents of children with additional needs where there is not sufficient provision of SNAs in some schools for the 2025/2026 school year, if additional appointments can be sanctioned without further delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34563/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the issuance of a sanction letter for assistive technology support for a primary school student (details supplied) whose application was approved in March 2025; and if the process can be expedited to avoid further delay in accessing the required educational supports. [35060/25]
Culture 3 questions
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will ensure that a successor scheme to the basic income for the arts pilot scheme will be introduced in 2026 in view of its value to artists across different disciplines and the need to support the artistic community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34716/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when the details for the next round of the community sports facilities fund will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34627/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will give detailed consideration to a recent briefing note of the Northern & Western Regional Assembly: Regional Infrastructure Priorities for the Northern and Western Region, June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35167/25]
Climate 2 questions
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the measures he will implement to ensure adequate safety measures are in place in relation to the development of battery energy storage systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34560/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will give detailed consideration to a recent briefing note of the Northern & Western Regional Assembly: Regional Infrastructure Priorities for the Northern and Western Region, June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35166/25]
Health 2 questions
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the measures that will be introduced to ensure more home support workers will be available to provide a very important service where unacceptable delays in such provision exist at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34622/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the progress to date with the major building project for Cavan General Hospital, including a new emergency department, endoscopy unit, and additional beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34621/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will give detailed consideration to a recent briefing note of the Northern & Western Regional Assembly: Regional Infrastructure Priorities for the Northern and Western Region, June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34166/25]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment in view of the concerns of employees at a company (details supplied), if he will ensure the best possible support is provided by his Department and the industrial promotion agencies to secure the maximum possible level of employment in that company and protect the best interests of employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34597/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will amend the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to include in the classes of development requiring an environmental assessment report for certain installations of stationary battery energy storage systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34562/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give detailed consideration to a recent briefing note of the Northern & Western Regional Assembly: Regional Infrastructure Priorities for the Northern and Western Region, June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35165/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if that funding for the Leader Programme post 2027 will continue to be provided through CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35183/25]

Cathy Bennett — Sinn Féin 8 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Health 2 questions
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health the basis of excluding women over the age of 35 from accessing the free contraception scheme. [34921/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health her proposals to provide adequate access to care for people with endometriosis. [34920/25]
Culture 2 questions
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the steps Monaghan County Council needs to take to secure funding for sports facilities at the convent lands in Monaghan town. [34926/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will report on the operation of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund. [34925/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Transport if he will report on his engagements with his Cabinet colleagues regarding the inclusion of a bypass for Monaghan town in the National Development Plan; the steps that Monaghan County Council must take to secure its inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24846/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of funding raised through the work of honorary consuls; the amount expended in support of their work, by country and by year, for the years 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33708/25]

David Maxwell — Fine Gael 7 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Matt Carthy — Sinn Féin 8 votes · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 27 total

Health 12 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if CHI have used National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) money to pay orthopaedic consultants at rates above the standard approved fees or during their contracted public working hours; if any CHI consultants were effectively double-paid that is, receiving their normal salary plus NTPF-funded fees for treating public patients, contrary to the intent that NTPF work be done in out-of-hours clinics; if any such individually negotiated pay arrangements occurred; if so, the details and justification; if any such arrangements were approved with the NTPF and HSE in advance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34329/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if those who approved arrangements (details supplied) ensured that all such work was done strictly on overtime with no clash with consultants' public duties; if all payments to consultants for these sessions processed transparently via CHI payroll in line with NTPF's rule against direct pay to consultants; who in CHI management signed off on these arrangements; if any insourcing deviated from these guidelines, if so, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34330/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the internal processes that CHI have had in place from 2019 onward to oversee the use of NTPF funds and special waiting-list initiatives; if the CHI executive or board were required to sign off on decisions to use NTPF money for private or insourced clinics; If so, if those protocols followed, for example, if the CEO, CFO, or clinical directors formally approved paying consultants extra to clear lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34331/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she has ascertained the way in which CHI ensured that patients chosen for any NTPF-funded surgery or clinic were selected based on medical priority and waiting time; if there were instances where long-waiting children were bypassed in favour of others in NTPF sessions; if she is assured that CHI did not engage in any practice of resetting or manipulating waitlists for optics for example, removing and re-adding patients to make waits appear shorter, or cycling patients through initial consultations or diagnostics, funded by NTPF, only to place them back on the same surgical waiting list thereafter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34332/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she has ensured that CHI utilized National Treatment Purchase Funds monies to reduce waiting times for the longest-waiting orthopaedic patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34333/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she has commissioned an investigation into the response of CHI management and board to internal warnings that arose in 2022 that the allocation of €19 million of scoliosis funds were not being utilised for the intended purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34348/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health in response to reports that CHI orthopaedic surgeons performed hip surgeries at University Hospital Galway and Cork in recent years, who approved sending CHI orthopaedic doctors to Galway and Cork; whether this was part of an official waiting-list initiative or NTPF arrangement; if the same oversight and patient-selection standards applied there as CHI sites; whether the orthopaedic doctors concerned were paid over the accepted rates; if so, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34349/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of surgeries outsourced by CHI to private providers in each year since 2020, in tabular form; the total amount paid to each private provider in each year; the governance policies in place to determine each private provider; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34350/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health whether any CHI-affiliated surgeons were involved in treating CHI patients at any private providers under NTPF contracts at any stage since 2020; to provide details of each instance; whether any conflict-of-interest declarations or audits have been carried out to ensure that outsourcing decisions were made solely to benefit patients and reduce waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34351/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health whether CHI commissioned any internal investigation since 2020 into orthopaedic waiting-list practices; the details of any such investigations; whether the findings of any such investigation were shared in a timely matter with the CHI board, HSE or the Minister respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34352/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a CT scanner and MRI scanner are located within Monaghan Hospital. [34678/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she will report on the provision of orthodontal services in the north-east region; the reasons for delays in accessing services; and her proposals to ensure adequate service levels. [34677/25]
Justice 10 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 667 of 20 May 2025, if the information is now available regarding the number of officers assigned to each of the 28 victim service offices within An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34362/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 9 April 2025, if the information sought is now available, including the financial supports available to victims of crime and witnesses to cover the costs of travel to court, and for accommodation where they are required to be available to attend court for a period of days; the annual budgetary allocation for these supports; if these supports are available in a consistent manner across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34366/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average rate per bed per day paid for accommodation in IPAS accommodation in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34903/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the lowest rate per bed per day paid for accommodation in IPAS accommodation in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34904/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the highest rate per bed per day paid for accommodation in IPAS accommodation in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34905/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Questions No. 573 of 25 March 2025 and No. 876 of 13 May 2025, regarding the details of all new Garda stations planned to be commenced within the next five years, if the requested information is now available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35170/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the exact step-by-step process by which voluntary departures by those who have been unsuccessful in their application for international protection is tracked and recorded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35171/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the analysis carried out in relation to the potential impact of the expected commencement of the EU’s entry/exit system with regard to irregular migration on Ireland in October 2025; if he has concerns that this will have implications for Ireland as an EU Member State that is not part of the Schengen area or party to this new system; the changes regarding to the entry and exit from the State being introduced to coincide with this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35172/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the projected annual cost for Ireland of participation in the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration for each of the next five years, broken down by current and capital expenditure, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35173/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number in each intake of Gardaí, and the number who attested, in each intake in the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35181/25]
Transport 2 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport the current earliest construction commencement and completion dates for the N2 Ardee to Castleblayney and Clontibret-to-the-Border road schemes. [34013/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport if he will increase the funding allocations to Cavan and Monaghan County Councils for local roads resurfacing in 2025. [34012/25]
Culture 2 questions
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the steps Monaghan County Council should take to secure funding for a swimming pool in Carrickmacross. [34630/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when the next phase of the large-scale infrastructure fund will be open for applications. [34631/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to the statement of European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas, of June 18 2025 (details supplied), whether he has appraised the High Representative that Iran was involved in negotiations regarding its civilian nuclear programme at the time it was attacked by Israel; if he is concerned that the High Representative’s lack of familiarity with factual events central to her role represents gross incompetence and undermines her ability to fulfil the duties of her office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34591/25]

Niamh Smyth — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 1 question · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 1 total

Children 1 question
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review correspondence (details supplied); her views on the proposal, and any potential supports or avenues of engagement that may be available to assist with its development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34214/25]

New lobbying 1 return

FTI Consulting Finance
- Publication of Payments Europe True Value of Cards Ireland Country Report